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Let’s Break Down This Letterman/Palin Deal for Our Good Friends on the Left

Apparently it’s confusing to some people, so let’s see if this helps explain why one of the jokes Letterman made the other night was a joke about raping a 14-year-old girl:

The only Palin daughter who went to the Yankees game that Letterman referred to was Willow.

In order for Alex Rodriguez to impregnate Willow Palin, as delineated in Letterman’s hilarious punch line, A-Rod would have to commit statutory rape.

Statutory rape is rape.

I realize I just threw a lot at you there, progressives, so feel free to take as much time as you need to sort through it.

[A long, long time passes]

All done? Think you’ve got it? Okay.

Now, during Letterman’s “part apology, part clarification” that neither apologized for nor clarified anything, he insisted that he wouldn’t make a joke about a kid getting knocked up because that would be sick, and he’s not sick. While this is truly a mighty fortress of logic, the fact remains that he spent eight full minutes on the topic last night without explaining why it wasn’t really a Willow Palin joke, even though Willow was the only Palin daughter at the event he was talking about.

“It doesn’t matter which Palin daughter got knocked up in that fictional scenario,” you cry. “It’s totally irrelevant to the joke!” Hey, don’t tell me. Tell Willow Palin. She’s the one who went to a baseball game with her mom and dad, and got slammed for it on national TV by a very wealthy and prominent older gentleman who has a history of problems dealing with women.

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The fact that he has previously stated that he is sexually attracted to Sarah Palin is something I haven’t seen incorporated in any of the MSM play by play we have been getting on the subject either. The guy obviously has some personal “special” feelings about the Governor and her daughters that have been working themselves into his monologues.

You are good man Mr. Treacher. One of the Marines doctrines is to defend those who cannot defend themselves from harm or I might just be remembering my fathers own words inaccurately. It is a gist thing. David Letterman should be hanging his head in shame. Aim small miss small.

If you watch the “clarification,” he had to ask someone on the set to verify the names of Palin’s kids for him. He seemed genuinely confused to me. It seems to me that he doesn’t know one from the other and probably doesn’t care.
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Still doesn’t excuse the “jokes,” of course, but I’m wondering if it’s as much a sign of oncoming senility as anything else.
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Now, during Letterman’s “part apology, part clarification” that neither apologized for nor clarified anything, he insisted that he wouldn’t make a joke about a kid getting knocked up because that would be sick, and he’s not sick.

So what lesson are we to take from Letterman’s ….um…clarification. Its wrong to joke about raping a 14 year old but its okay to joke about raping an 18 year old ……. simply because you disagree with the child’s parents’ political views.

** Emails flood in complaining that Dave made a joke about the rape of a minor. Now you’d think that this is the point where someone would take Dave aside and say “Yo, we got a problem – they think you’re talking about Willow!” And of course – this is absolutely what had to have happened – and Dave dismissed this.

— Does Dave apologize? Hell no – he goes out the next night and doubles-down with an Eliot Spitzer “whore” joke aimed at her daughter. Again – Bristol’s not in New York.

So the way I understand this – Dave Letterman makes a rape joke about WILLOW – takes some light heat – but goes out the next night and doubles down on the joke – making her a prostitute the next night.

Then he takes major broadsides from advertisers who are now getting letters.

Then he decides to make a snarky apology.

Got it.

Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong here – I’m not a “follower” of David Letterman. But as I understand it – he told TWO jokes that sexually exploited Willow in two nights – there was a 24 hour period where he got complaints and ignored them.

At the very least – David Letterman was relishing in the “ambiguity” that he was telling a sexual joke about a 14 year old.

What a sick individual. If I run into this guy in an airport – I’m going to publicly ask him about his pedophelia problem.

Anyone else see it as a pathetic old pervert going for ratings – any attention, good or bad, is attention, right?

I was surprised to hear that one of the orgs for old hags (can’t remember which one) actually came out and scolded Mr. Late Night, but then I read the paragraph where the hags had to diss Gov. Palin. Same ol’ same ol’, *sigh*

I’m still wondering why Pres. Obama hasn’t called for Letterman to be fired yet, as he did with Imus. These scripted jokes are worse than the off-the-cuff “nappy headed hos” comment.

Anyway, I disagree with sending Todd to New York, as mrsbash suggests. As I suggested on a different HotAir thread yesterday, Letterman should do a USO show (maybe even an embed?) in Iraq, where he can explain to Track and his buddies what he said about his younger sister(s), and what he really meant.

The heads are exploding at Huffpo. Many are suffering from cognitive dissonance. They are figuring out that the left really doesn’t care about all women and children. They make apologies for Letterman when his actions are indefensible.
This is delicious.